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David Bowie: (Spaceboy)
The alien who swapped faces like clothes-elf one year, duke the next. Ziggy, Aladdin, Hallo Spaceboy, Thin White, every persona a glitter bomb. Wrote All the Young Dudes, gave Lou Reed Transformer, dressed Roxy in synths, then vanished. Voice like glass and velvet. Posts multiplying faster than his personas.
David Bowie: "Young Americans - Bowie's New Soul Album" Advert (1975)
David Bowie’s "Young Americans - Bowie's New Soul Album", a one-page advert in New Musical Express, April 5, 1975.
David Bowie
Apr 4, 19751 min read
David Bowie: "Young Americans - Bowie's New Soul Album" Advert (1975)
David Bowie’s "Young Americans - Bowie's New Soul Album", a one-page advert in Melody Maker, March 29, 1975.
David Bowie
Mar 28, 19751 min read
David Bowie: "Bowie To Sue" Article (1975)
David Bowie’s "Bowie To Sue", a one-page article in Disc, March 29, 1975.
David Bowie
Mar 28, 19751 min read
🔘 YOUNG AMERICANS – Album: Mar. 1975
A smoky, soulful reinvention — Young Americans captures Bowie at the crossroads of glam, funk, and American rhythm.
David Bowie
Mar 21, 19754 min read
📰 Young Americans – Album Review: Mar. 1975
Soul grooves, sharp tailoring, and a voice reborn — Young Americans marks Bowie’s most surprising transformation yet.
David Bowie
Mar 15, 19753 min read
📰 NME – Cover & Young Americans Review: Mar. 1975
A cover tease, a shadowed stage photo, and a soul‑drenched reinvention — Bowie’s Young Americans era arrives in the British press with a mixture of awe and apprehension.
David Bowie
Mar 15, 19753 min read
📰Weird Time in New York City – Mar. 1975
A chaotic collage of stars, flashbulbs, and irreverent captions — NME’s “Thrills” page turns Grammy week into a surreal New York fever dream.
David Bowie
Mar 15, 19753 min read
📰 DAVID BOWIE NEW ALBUM DUE – Mar. 1975
A brief announcement with outsized impact — the first public signal that Bowie was leaving glam behind and stepping into the sleek, soulful world of Young Americans.
David Bowie
Mar 8, 19753 min read
📰 Young Americans – The New Single – Advert: Mar. 1975
A second framing excerpt underscoring the advert’s significance as the first UK announcement of Bowie’s soul‑era transformation — a stark, stylish signal that a new chapter had begun.
David Bowie
Mar 1, 19752 min read
📰 Flying Saucers, Hitler & David Bowie – NME: Feb 1975
Published February 23, 1975, this New Musical Express feature captures Bowie in one of his most unfiltered interviews — discussing extraterrestrials, authoritarian symbolism, and the manipulation of mass consciousness while surrounded by his entourage in a U.S. hotel suite.
David Bowie
Feb 22, 19753 min read
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